Partners in South Carolina’s failed nuclear project turn on each other

NUCLEAR: SCANA is accusing its utility partner Santee Cooper of misleading state leaders for years about its role in the now-failed Summer nuclear project in South Carolina. (Post and Courier)

COAL:
• It is not clear how much the Trump administration’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan will actually help the coal industry, and it may only slow its decline. (NPR, CBS News)• A new analysis from the Union of Concerned Scientists predicts a continued decline in coal producing electricity in the U.S., and also says most of the uneconomic coal units are located in the Southeast. (Southern Alliance for Clean Energy)

POLITICS: Florida utility companies have donated nearly $800,000 to support the state agriculture commissioner’s gubernatorial campaign, and also have donated another $1.8 million that may have been re-directed to him. (Florida Politics)

COMMENTARY:
• An editorial says Kentucky Sen. Mitch McConnell has promised that coal mining jobs would come back if it were not for Obama-era regulations – and now we’ll discover if that’s true. (Lexington Herald-Leader)
• A lawmaker from Georgia says the United States needs to let the world know nuclear energy is going to continue to be part of our domestic energy production. (The Hill)
• A columnist questions the timing of the Trump administration’s repeal of the Clean Power Plan. (Mother Jones)• An editorial says Duke Energy should do what the law requires and assure the solar energy project bidding process is truly independent. (Capital Broadcasting Company)
• The Trump’s administration proposal to “socialize the costs of coal-fired and nuclear power plants in this country … would radically transform energy markets and the utility industry.” (Forbes)